Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!killer!usl!pcb
From: pcb@usl.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows and Floating Point
Summary: C libs?
Keywords: windows, floating, link4
Message-ID: <671@usl.usl.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 89 21:39:17 GMT
References: <332@rna.UUCP>
Organization: CACS, Lafayette, LA, USA
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In article <332@rna.UUCP>, kc@rna.UUCP (Kaare Christian) writes:
> I am having trouble using floating point code in my windows programs.
> (Env -- msc 5.1, new libraries from Genie which were called C5FIX,
> the new Genie link4, win sdk1.04) When I used the original sdk 1.04
> stuff, programs containing floating point don't run. There is no
> explanation, you double click on the .exe and nothing happens. Same
> prog minus the floating point works ok. I tried the -FPa and -FPi
> varieties of floating point. With the C5FIX libraries and link4 (from
> Genie) I can't get it to link correctly. Link4 complains that something
> (__fptask??, I'm at work and the error messages are at home) is 
> multiply defined. The link4 libraries are swin.lib and slibce.lib, and
> the link4 switches are /NOD and /NOE.
> 

Are you sure the libs in the C compiler are installed right (i.e. with
the correct math libs - 80..87 or emulator or alternative) and that
windows sdk was installed to rename theses libs with its version?